The Sound of Blues

Etta James - Blues To The Bone

2009-01-14T05:50:00.000-08:00

1. Got My Mojo Working
2. Don't Start Me To Talking
3. Hush Hush
4. Lil' Red Rooster
5. That's Alright
6. Crawlin' King Snake
7. Dust My Broom
8. The Sky Is Crying
9. Smokestack Lightin'
10. You Shook Me
11. Driving Wheel
12. Honey, Don't Tear My Clothes

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John Lee Hooker - Blues

2009-01-14T05:40:00.001-08:00

1. I\'m In The Mood 3:08
2. Baby Please Don\'t Go 2:19
3. Whistle Done Blown 3:10
4. Come Back Baby 2:57
5. Turnin\' Gray Blues 2:49
6. Bad Boy 3:06
7. Down Child 2:53
8. Gotta Boogie 2:25
9. Turn Over A New Leaf 3:09
10.Tease Me Baby 3:03
11.Lord What More Can I Do 2:54
12.Women In My Life 3:13
13.Leave My Wife Alone 2:48
14.Wheel And Deal 2:32
15.Time Is Marching 3:02
16.Louise 3:05
17.I Met The Grindin\' Man 3:00
18.Throw This Old Dog A Bone 2:39
19.Queen Bee 2:35
20.John Lee\'s House Rent Boogie 2:59

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Muddy Waters - The Hoochie Coochie Man

2009-01-14T05:24:00.000-08:00

Hoochie Coochie Man
Good Morning Little School Girl
That's Alright
Walking Through the Park
I Want To Be Loved
The Blues had a Baby and They Named it RockAndRoll
Howling Wolf
I'm a King Bee
Sad Sad Day
Baby Please Don't Go

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Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

2009-01-14T05:19:00.000-08:00

Disc: 1
1. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
2. Kind Hearted Woman Blues
3. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
4. Sweet Home Chicago
5. Rambling On My Mind
6. Rambling On My Mind
7. When You Got A Good Friend
8. When You Got A Good Friend
9. Come On In My Kitchen
10. Come On In My Kitchen
11. Terraplane Blues
12. Phonograph Blues
13. Phonograph Blues
14. 32-20 Blues
15. They're Red Hot
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Cross Road Blues
18. Cross Road Blues
19. Walking Blues
20. Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Disc: 2
1. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
2. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
3. Stones In My Passway
4. I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
5. From Four Till Late
6. Hellbound On My Trail
7. Little Queen Of Spades
8. Little Queen Of Spades
9. Malted Milk
10. Drunken Hearted Man
11. Drunken Hearted Man
12. Me & The Devil Blues
13. Me & The Devil Blues
14. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
15. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
16. Traveling Riverside Blues
17. Honeymoon Blues
18. Love In Vain
19. Love In Vain
20. Milkcow's Calf Blues
21. Milkcow's Calf Blues

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Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

2008-11-27T01:58:00.000-08:00

01. EXP
02. Up From The Skies
03. Spanish Castle Magic
04. Wait Until Tomorrow
05. Ain't No Telling
06. Little Wing
07. If 6 Was 9
08. You Got Me Floatin'
09. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She's So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

2008-11-27T01:53:00.000-08:00

01.Foxy Lady-03:19
02.Manic Depression-03:42
03.Red House-03:44
04.Can You See Me-02:33
05.Love Or Confusion-03:13
06.I Don’t Live Today-03:55
07.May This Be Love-03:11
08.Fire-02:45
09.Third Stone From The Sun-06:44
10.Remember-02:48
11.Are You Experienced-04:14
12.Hey Joe-03:30
13.Stone Free-03:36
14.Purlple Haze-02:51
15.51st.Anniversary-03:16
16.The Wind Cries Mary-03:20
17.Higway Chile-03:32

Jimi Hendrix - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

2008-11-27T01:51:00.000-08:00

01. Sunshine Of Your Love
02. Bleeding Heart
03. Fire
04. Little Wing
05. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
06. Room Full Of Mirrors
07. Purple Haze
08. Wild Thing
09. Smashing Of The Amps

Fats Domino - My Blue Heaven (The Best of Fats Domino)

2008-11-27T01:45:00.000-08:00

1. My Blue Heaven
2. The Fat Man
3. Please Don't Leave Me
4. Ain't It A Shame
5. I'm In Love Again
6. When My Dreamboat Comes Home
7. Blueberry Hill
8. Blue Monday
9. I'm Walkin'
10. Valley Of Tears
11. The Big Beat
12. Yes, My Darling
13. Whole Lotta Loving
14. I'm Ready
15. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
16. I Want To Walk You Home
17. Be My Guest
18. Walking To New Orleans
19. Let The Four Winds Blow
20. What A Party

Stevie Ray Vaughn - The Sky Is Crying

2008-11-27T00:51:00.000-08:00

1. Boot Hill
2. The Sky Is Crying
3. Empty Arms
4. Little Wing
5. Wham!
6. May I Have A Talk With You
7. Close To You
8. Chitlins Con Carne
9. So Excited
10. Life By The Drop

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live From Austin, Texas

2008-11-27T00:49:00.000-08:00

1. Testify
2. So Excited (w/False Start)
3. Instrumental
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Pride and Joy
6. tune up
7. Texas Flood
8. Love Struck Baby
9. Mary Had a Little Lamb
10. Tin Pan Alley
11. Rude Mood
12. Lenny (false start)
13. Lenny

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985

2008-11-27T00:44:00.000-08:00

Disc 1
1. Hide Away
2. Rude Mood
3. Pride And Joy
4. Texas Flood
5. Love Struck Baby
6. Dirty Pool
7. Give Me Back My Wig
8. Collins Shuffle

Disc 2
1. Intro Montreux
2. Scuttle Buttin'
3. Say What!
4. Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love
5. Pride And Joy
6. Mary Had A Little Lamb
7. Cold Shot
8. Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)
9. Look At Little Sister
10. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
11. Texas Flood
12. Encore
13. Life Without You
14. Gone Home Live
15. Couldn't Stand The Weather

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Jimmi Vaughn - Family Style

2008-11-27T00:31:00.000-08:00

1. Boot Hill
2. The Sky Is Crying
3. Empty Arms
4. Little Wing
5. Wham!
6. May I Have A Talk With You
7. Close To You
8. Chitlins Con Carne
9. So Excited
10. Life By The Drop

A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan (Live)

2008-11-27T00:29:00.001-08:00

1. Pride And Joy - Bonnie Raitt
2. Texas Flood - Jimmie Vaughan
3. Telephone Song - B.B. King
4. Long Way From Home - Buddy Guy
5. Ain't Gone'N Give Up On Your Love - Eric Clapton
6. Love Struck Baby - Robert Cray
7. Cold Shot - Dr. John
8. Six String Down - Vários artistas
9. Tick Tock - Vários artistas10. SRV Shuffle - Vários artistas

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984)

2008-11-27T00:25:00.000-08:00

1. Scuttle buttin'
2. Couldn't Stand The Weather
3. Things That I Used To Do
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
5. Cold Shot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Stevie Ray Vaughn - From Austin To Amsterdam (1983)

2008-11-27T00:22:00.001-08:00

01 - Voodoo Chile
02 - The Things (That) I Used To Do
03 - Pride And Joy
04 - Tin Pan Alley
05 - Instrumental
06 - Voodoo Chile
07 - Tell Me
08 - Mary Had A Little Lamb
09 - Texas Flood
10 - Love Struck Baby
11 - You'll Be Mine

Stevie Ray Vaughn & David Bowie - Dallas Moonlight (1983)

2008-11-27T00:11:00.000-08:00

CD 1
1. Star (3:23)
2. Heroes (5:05)
3. What In The World (3:54)
4. Look Back In Anger (3:01)
5. Joe The Lion (3:00)
6. Wild Is The Wind (4:59)
7. Golden Years (4:15)
8. Fashion (3:22)
9. Lets Dance (5:23)
10. Red Sails (3:55)
11. Breaking Glass (3:09)
12. Life On Mars (3:51)
13. Sorrow (2:45)
14. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (4:19)
15. China Girl (5:35)
16. Scary Monsters (Super Creeps) (3:51)
17. Rebel Rebel (2:24)
18. I Can't Explain (2:39)
19. White Light White Heat (4:41)

CD 2
1. Station To Station (9:07)
2. Cracked Actor (3:20)
3. Ashes To Ashes (3:58)
4. Space Oddity (4:36)
5. Young Americans (5:29)
6. Soul Love (3:07)
7. Hang Onto Yourself (3:23)
8. Fame (4:15)
9. TVC15 (4:16)
10. Stay (7:11)
11. Jean Genie (6:15)
12. Modern Love (5:19)

Gary Moore - Ballads And Blues

2008-11-27T00:08:00.001-08:00

1. Always Gonna Love You 3:54
2. Still Got The Blues (Single Version) 4:10
3. Empty Rooms (Single Version - Summer 1985) 4:15
4. Parisienne Walkways (Live On The 'Blues Alive' Tour) 6:47
5. One Day 3:59
6. Separate Ways 4:54
7. Story Of The Blues 6:39
8. Crying In The Shadows 5:00
9. With Love (Remember) 7:06
10. Midnight Blues 4:58
11. Falling In Love With You (Single Version) 4:05
12. Jumpin' At Shadows 4:21
13. Blues For Narada 7:40
14. Johnny Boy 3:11

Jimmi Vaughn - Do You Get The Blues (2001)

2008-11-27T00:05:00.000-08:00

01. Dirty Girl
02. Out Of The Shadows
03. The Deep End
04. Power Of Love
05. Without You
06. Let Me In
07. Don’t Let The Sun Set
08. Robbin’ Me Blind
09. Slow Dance Blues
10. In The Middle Of The Night
11. Planet Bongo

House of Blues - Essential Blues Guitar

2008-11-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

Disc 1
Josephine - Snooks Eaglin
Do Unto Others - Pee Wee Crayton
Buck's Boogie - Matt "Guitar" Murphy
Bring Your Love To Me - Hubert Sumlin
Double Trouble - Otis Rush
Catfish Blues - Big Jack Johnson
Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood Jr. with Otis Spann
Melt Down - Albert Collins
First Time I Met the Blues - Buddy Guy
Rollin' and Tumblin' - Muddy Waters
Black Angel Blues - Robert Nighthawk
Ain't Got Nobody - Hound Dog Taylor
Blues All Around Me - Lurrie Bell
11823 S. Michigan Avenue - Magic Slim
Red Cross Store - Mississippi Fred Mcdowall

Disc 2
Phone Booth - Robert Cray Band
Blues In D Natural - Earl Hooker
T-Bone Shuffle - T-Bone Walker
The Sky Is Crying - Elmore James
The Thrill Is Gone - B. B. King
When a Guitar Plays the Blues - Roy Buchanan
Sinners Prayer - Lowell Fulson
I Have the Same Old Blues - Magic Sam
Beetin Nockin Ringin - Jimmy Dawkins
Your Love Is Amazing - Robert Ward
Blues Power - Albert King
Standing At the Crossroads - Johnny Shines
The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim
Mumblin' Guitar - Bo Diddley
I Got a Bad Mind - Big Joe Williams
Crawlin' King Snake - John Lee Hooker
Baby Please Don't Go - Eddie "One String" Jones

B.B. King - Live (2008)

2008-11-26T23:55:00.000-08:00

01 - Mr. King Comes On Stage 02:50
02 - Why I Sing The Blues 03:39
03 - I Need You So 05:31
04 - Bad Case Of Love 02:38
05 - Blues Man 06:27
06 - When Love Comes To Town 05:54
07 - All Over Again 05:56
08 - You Are My Sunshine 03:28
09 - Rock Me Baby 05:37
10 - Key To The Highway 04:34
11 - The Thrill Is Gone 04:44
12 - When The Saints Go Marching In 02:40

Jeff Healey Band - The Very Best Of JHB (1998)

2008-11-23T11:54:00.000-08:00

1. It Could All Get Blown Aw
2. Communication Breakdown
3. Yer Blues
4. Stop Breakin' Down
5. Run Through the Jungle
6. Cruel Little Number
7. Shapes of Things
8. Badge
9. Confidence Man
10. Angel
11. House That Love Built
12. River of No Return
13. See the Light
14. Don't Let Your Chance Go
15. Nice Problem to Have
16. While My Guitar Gently We

Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues

2008-11-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

1. I'm Tore Down

2. How Blue Can You Get

3. Sugar Sweet

4. Jambalaya

5. The Weight

6. Mess O' Blues

7. It's Only Money

8. Like A Hurricane

9. Sittin' On Top Of The World

10. Shake, Rattle And RollBit

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List of Blues Musician

2008-10-31T16:53:00.000-07:00

Early country blues

Alger "Texas" Alexander
Pink Anderson
Barbecue Bob Hicks
Scrapper Blackwell
Black Ace
Blind Blake
[[Big Bill Broonzy]
Richard "Rabbit" Brown
[[Willie Brown (musician)Willie Brown
Bumble Bee Slim
Gus Cannon
Bo Carter
Sam Collins
Floyd Council
Ida Cox (1896-1967)
Gary Davis (1896-1972)
Sleepy John Estes (1904-1977)
Blind Boy Fuller (1908-1941)
Jesse Fuller (1896-1976)
Billy Garland (1918-1960)
Jazz Gillum (1904-1966)
Shirley Griffith (1908-1974)
Arvella Gray (1906-1980)
Smokey Hogg (1914-1960)
Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982)
Son House (c. 1902-1988)
Peg Leg Howell (1888-1966)
Alberta Hunter (1895-1984)
Mississippi John Hurt (c. 1893-1966)
Jim Jackson (c. 1884-1937)
John Jackson
Skip James (1902-1969)
Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929)
Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945)
Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970)
Robert Johnson (1911-1938)
Tommy Johnson (1896-1956)
Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter (c. 1889-1949)
Furry Lewis (1899-1981)
Mance Lipscomb (1895-1976)
Cripple Clarence Lofton (1887-1957)
Robert Lockwood, Jr. (1915-2006)
Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904-1972)
Brownie McGhee (1915-1996)
Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959)
The Memphis Jug Band
Big Maceo Merriweather (1905-1953)
Eugene "Buddy" Moss (c. 1914-1984)
Memphis Minnie (1897-1973)
Charlie Patton (1891-1934)
Piano Red (1911-1985)
Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
Tampa Red (1904-1981)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Victoria Spivey (1908-1976)
Frank Stokes (c. 1888-1955)
Sonny Terry (1911-1986)
Henry Townsend (1909-2006)
Sippie Wallace (1898-1986)
Washboard Sam (1910-1966)
Curley Weaver (1906-1962)
Peetie Wheatstraw (1902-1941)
Bukka White (1909-1977)
Josh White (1914 or 1915-1969)
Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914-1948)

Early urban blues

Gladys Bentley (1907-1960)
Lucille Bogan (1897-1948)
Georgia Tom Dorsey (1899-1993)
Lil Green (1919-1954)
Lucille Hegamin (1894-1970)
Alberta Hunter (1895-1984)
Papa Charlie Jackson (c.1890-1938)
Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
Clara Smith (c. 1894-1935)
Mamie Smith (1883-1946)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
Sippie Wallace (1898-1986)
Ethel Waters (1896-1977)

Pre-World War II jazz blues

Albert Ammons (1907-1949)
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)
Leroy Carr (1905-1935)
Walter Davis (1912-1963)
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Champion Jack Dupree (c. 1909-1992)
Ivory Joe Hunter (1914-1974)
St. Louis Jimmy Oden (1903-1977)
Meade Lux Lewis (1905-1964)
Little Brother Montgomery (c. 1906-1985)
Big Maceo Merriweather (1905-1953)
Kansas Joe McCoy (1905-1950)
Papa Charlie McCoy (1909-1950)
Jay McShann (1916-2006)
Roy Milton (1907-1983)
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)
Jimmy Rushing (1902-1972)
Roosevelt Sykes (1906-1983)
Big Joe Turner (1911-1985)
Sam Taylor (born 1916)
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975)

Postwar Blues

Mose Allison (born 1927)
Charles Brown (1922-1999)
Roy Brown (1925-1981)
Ray Charles (1930-2004)
Pee Wee Crayton (1914-1985)
Floyd Dixon (1929-2006)
Champion Jack Dupree (c. 1909-1992)
Wynonie Harris (1915-1969)
Louis Jordan (1908-1975)
Little Willie Littlefield (born 1931)
Percy Mayfield (1920-1984)
Piano Red (1911-1985)
Memphis Slim (1915-1988)
Amos Milburn (1927-1980)
Pinetop Perkins (born 1913)
Jimmy Witherspoon (1923-1997)

Kansas City blues

Walter Brown (1917-1956)
Jay McShann (c.1916-2006)
Arnold Moore (1914-2005)
Jimmy Rushing (c. 1902-1972)
Big Joe Turner (1911-1985)

Later styles

Little Hatch (1921-2003)
Lee McBee (born 1951)

Chicago/Detroit blues

Luther Allison (1939-1997)
Paul Butterfield (1942-1987)
John Henry Barbee (1905-1964)
Carey Bell (1936-2007)
Eddie Boyd (1914–1994)
James Cotton (born 1935)
Bo Diddley (1928–2008)
Willie Dixon (1915-1992)
David Honeyboy Edwards (born 1915)
Buddy Guy (born 1936)
Earl Hooker (1929-1970)
J.B. Hutto (1926-1983)
Big Walter Horton (1918-1981)
Floyd Jones (1917-1989)
Elmore James (1918-1963)
Albert King (1924-1992)
Freddie King (1934-1976)
Eddie Kirkland
John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)
Charlie Musselwhite (born 1944)
Robert Nighthawk (1909–1967)
Pinetop Perkins (born 1913)
Jimmy Reed (1925-1976)
Soko Richardson (1939 - 2004)
Jimmy Rogers (1924-1997)
Otis Rush (born 1934)
Magic Sam (1937-1970)
Johnny Shines (1915-1992)
Magic Slim (born 1937)
Otis Spann (1930-1970)
Hound Dog Taylor (1915-1975)
Eddie Taylor (1923-1985)
Little Walter (1930-1968)
Muddy Waters (1915-1983)
Carl Weathersby (born 1953)
Junior Wells (1934-1998)
Howlin' Wolf (1910-1976)
Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) (c. 1899-1965)

Modern blues (post 1950s)

Gaye Adegbalola (1944-)
James Anthony (Pecchia) (born 1955)
Back Alley John (1955-2006)
Etta Baker (1913-2006)
Marcia Ball (born 1949)
Elvin Bishop (born 1942)
Bobby Blue Bland (born 1930)
Rory Block (born 1949)
Michael Bloomfield (1943-1981)
Blues Brothers
Delaney Bramlett(born 1939)
Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges (born 1964)
Lonnie Brooks (born 1933)
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (1924-2005)
Roy Buchanan (1939-1988)
Eric Burdon (born 1941)
Eric Clapton (born 1945)
Albert Collins (1932-1993)
Johnny Copeland (1937-1997)
Al Copley (born 1952)
Robert Cray (born 1953)
Willie Dixon (1915-1992)
Snooks Eaglin (born 1936)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Robben Ford (born 1951)
Rory Gallagher (1948-1995)
Peter Green (born 1946)
John Hammond (born 1942)
Alvin Youngblood Hart [1](born 1963)
Ted Hawkins (1936-1995)
Z. Z. Hill (1935-1984)
John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)
Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-1982)
Hot Tuna
Colin James (born 1964)
Etta James (born 1938)
Jimmy Johnson (born 1928)
B. B. King (born 1925)
Freddie King (1934-1976)
Taj Mahal (born 1942)
John Mayall (born 1933)
Keb' Mo' (born 1951)
Sam Myers (born 1936)
Odetta (born 1930)
Rod Piazza (born 1947)
Lonnie Pitchford (1955-1998)
Louisiana Red (born 1932)
Fenton Robinson (1935-1997)
Roomful of Blues
Bobby Rush (born 1940)
Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
Seasick Steve Dates Unknown Mid 20th Century to Present
Magic Slim (born 1937)
Son Seals (1942-2004)
Arbee Stidham (1917-1988)
Koko Taylor (born 1935)
Tabby Thomas (born 1929)
Rufus Thomas (1917-2001)
Ali Farka Toure (1939-2006)
Jimmie Vaughan (born 1951)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990)
Kazumi Watanabe (born 1953)
Johnny Winter (born 1944)

Blues since 1990

Gwyn Ashton
Tab Benoit (born 1967)
Deanna Bogart (born 1960)
Joe Bonamassa (born 1977)
Kenny Brown
R. L. Burnside (1926-2005)
Tommy Castro (born 1959)
Claudia Carawan (born 1959)
Joanna Connor (born 1962)
Shemekia Copeland (born 1979)
Sean Costello (1979-2008)
Guy Davis (born 1952)
Chris Duarte (born 1964)
Ronnie Earl (born 1953)
Tinsley Ellis (born 1957)
Sue Foley (born 1968)
Anson Funderburgh (born 1954)
Anthony Gomes (born 1975)
Alvin Youngblood Hart (born 1965)
Jeff Healey (1966-2008)
Ron Holloway (born 1953)
Colin James
Gene Kelton
Junior Kimbrough (1930-1998)
Chris Thomas King (born 1964)
Jonny Lang (born 1981)
Harry Manx
Keb Mo' (born 1951)
Coco Montoya
Kenny Neal (born 1957)
North Mississippi All Stars
Blind Mississippi Morris (born 1955)
Charlie Parr
Asie Payton (1937-1997)
Kelly Joe Phelps
Ana Popovic (born 1976)
Roxanne Potvin (born 1982)
Todd Sharpville (born 1970)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born 1976)
Bobby Sowell (born 1947)
Otis Taylor (born 1948)
Susan Tedeschi (born 1970)
Jimmy Thackery (born 1953)
T-Model Ford (born 1924)
Joe Louis Walker (born 1949)
William Elliott Whitmore
Bob Cobb (born 1965)
Daniel Springhorn

[Blues in conventional pop music

Harold Arlen, "Blues in the Night" and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, "I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"
George Gershwin (1898-1937), "Porgy and Bess"
John Mayer Trio, "Try!" 2005

[Blues in country music

Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
Merle Haggard (1937)
Jerry Lee Lewis (1937)
Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)
Hank Williams (1923-1953)
See also: rockabilly

Blues influence in classical music

George Gershwin (1898-1937), "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F"
Honegger, "Pacific 231", the "train song" as concerto.
William Grant Still, "Afro-American Symphony"
[edit] Blues in contemporary rock and pop music
Bonnie Raitt
G. Love & Special Sauce
Moby (born 1965)
The White Stripes
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Black Keys
Nick Cave (born 1957)
Tom Waits (born 1949)
Ben Harper (born 1969)
Jon Spencer
Los Lonely Boys
Chris Thomas King (born 1962)
Hans Olson

Blues from Europe

Alexis Korner
Ana Popovic
Barrelhouse
Bjorn Berge
Cuby and the Blizzards
Cyril Davies
Christian Dozzler
Elmore D
Eric Clapton
Todd Sharpville
Hans Theessink
Herman Brood
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
John Kirkbride
Simon Allan (Referred to as the Sexy)
Peter Green
Rory Gallagher
Steve Baker
Yavuz Çetin
Philip Fankhauser

Blues from Latin America

Nuno Mindelis
Pappo

Blues Hall of Fame

2008-10-31T16:37:00.000-07:00

2007
Dave Bartholomew
Dr. John
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Non-Performers:
Art Rupe
Ahmet Ertegün

2006
Paul Butterfield
James Cotton
Bobby Rush
Roy Milton
Non-Performers:
Bobby Robinson
Jerry Wexler
Joe, Jules, Lester, and Saul Bihari

2005
Ike Turner
Walter Davis
Non Performer:
H. C. Speir

2004
Bo Diddley
Blind Boy Fuller
Non Performer:
J. Mayo Williams

2003
Fats Domino
Pinetop Perkins
Dinah Washington
Sippie Wallace
Non Performer:
Ralph Bass

2002
Big Maceo Merriweather
Ruth Brown
Non Performer
Jim O'Neal

2001
Rufus Thomas
Etta James
Little Junior Parker
Non Performers:
Theresa Needham
Robert Palmer

2000
Johnny Otis
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Non Performer:
Dick Waterman

1999
Roosevelt Sykes
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Non Performers:
Chris Strachwitz
Lester Melrose

1998
Luther Allison
Junior Wells
Non Performers:
Lillian Shedd McMurry
Sam Phillips

1997
Brownie McGhee
Koko Taylor
Non Performer:
Bruce Iglauer

1996
Charles Brown
David Honeyboy Edwards
Non Performers:
Pete Welding
Bob Koester

1995
Jimmy Rogers
Non Performers :
Leonard Chess
Phil Chess

1994
Arthur Big Boy Crudup
Wynonie Harris
Non Performers :
Bill "Hoss" Allen
John Lomax
Alan Lomax
John Richbourg
Gene Nobles

1993
Champion Jack Dupree
Lowell Fulson

1992
Skip James
Johnny Shines
Big Joe Williams

1991
Sleepy John Estes
Billie Holiday
Fred McDowell
Sunnyland Slim

1990
Blind Blake
Lonnie Johnson
Bukka White

1989
Clifton Chenier
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Memphis Slim

1988
Mississippi John Hurt
Little Milton
Jay McShann
Johnny Winter

1987
Percy Mayfield
Eddie Taylor
Sonny Terry

1986
Albert Collins
Tommy Johnson
Lead Belly

1985
Chuck Berry
Buddy Guy
J.B. Hutto
Slim Harpo

1984
Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog Taylor
Otis Rush

1983
Louis Jordan
Albert King
Robert Nighthawk
Ma Rainey
Big Joe Turner

1982
Leroy Carr
Ray Charles
Big Walter Horton
Freddie King
Magic Sam

1981
Bobby Blue Bland
Roy Brown
Blind Willie McTell
Professor Longhair
Tampa Red

1980
Big Bill Broonzy
Willie Dixon
John Lee Hooker
Lightnin' Hopkins
Son House
Howlin' Wolf
Elmore James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Robert Johnson
B. B. King
Little Walter
Memphis Minnie
Muddy Waters
Charley Patton
Jimmy Reed
Bessie Smith
Otis Spann
T-Bone Walker
Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson)
Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck "Rice" Miller)

History of the Blues Genre

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Origins

Blues has evolved from an unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of African-American slaves (imported from West Africa; principally present day Mali, Senegal, the Gambia and Ghana) and rural blacks into a wide variety of styles and subgenres, with regional variations across the United States and, later, Europe and Africa. The musical forms and styles that are now considered the "blues" as well as modern "country music" arose in the same regions during the nineteenth century in the southern United States. Recorded blues and country can be found from as far back as the 1920s, when the popular record industry developed and created marketing categories called "race music" and "hillbilly music" to sell music by blacks for blacks and by whites for whites, respectively.
At the time, there was no clear musical division between "blues" and "country," except for the ethnicity of the performer, and even that was sometimes documented incorrectly by record companies. Studies have situated the origin of black spirituals in slaves' exposure to southern white hymns related to shape note music, the hymns of the Methodist John Wesley carried by 19th c. revivalist preachers, and later Scots-Irish musical influence. African-American economist and historian Thomas Sowell also notes that the southern, black, ex-slave population was acculturated to a considerable degree by and among their Scots-Irish neighbors. However, the findings of Kubik and others also clearly attest to the essential Africanness of many essential aspects of blues expression.
The social and economic reasons for the appearance of the blues are not fully known. The first appearance of the blues is not well defined and is often dated between 1870 and 1900, a period that coincides with Emancipation and, later, the development of juke joints as places where Blacks went listen to music, dance and often gamble after a hard day's work, and the transition from slavery to sharecropping, small-scale agricultural production and the expansion of railroads in the southern United States.
Several scholars characterize the early 1900s development of blues music as a move from group performances to a more individualized style. They argue that the development of the blues is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the enslaved people. According to Lawrence Levine, "there was a direct relationship between the national ideological emphasis upon the individual, the popularity of Booker T. Washington's teachings, and the rise of the blues." Levine states that "psychologically, socially, and economically, Negroes were being acculturated in a way that would have been impossible during slavery, and it is hardly surprising that their secular music reflected this as much as their religious music did."

Prewar Blues

The American sheet music publishing industry produced a great deal of ragtime music. By 1912, the sheet music industry published three popular blues-like compositions, precipitating the Tin Pan Alley adoption of blues elements: "Baby Seals' Blues" by "Baby" F. Seals (arranged by Artie Matthews), "Dallas Blues" by Hart Wand and "The Memphis Blues" by W. C. Handy.
Handy was a formally trained musician, composer and arranger who helped to popularize the blues by transcribing and orchestrating blues in an almost symphonic style, with bands and singers. He became a popular and prolific composer, and billed himself as the "Father of the Blues"; however, his compositions can be described as a fusion of blues with ragtime and jazz, a merger facilitated using the Cuban habanera rhythm that had long been a part of ragtime; Handy's signature work was the "St. Louis Blues."
In the 1920s, the blues became a major element of African American and American popular music, reaching white audiences via Handy's arrangements and the classic female blues performers. The blues evolved from informal performances in bars to entertainment in theaters. Blues performances were organized by the Theater Owners Bookers Association in nightclubs such as the Cotton Club and juke joints such as the bars along Beale Street in Memphis. This evolution led to a notable diversification of the styles and to a clearer division between blues and jazz. Several record companies, such as the American Record Corporation, Okeh Records, and Paramount Records, began to record African American music.
As the recording industry grew, country blues performers like Bo Carter, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red and Blind Blake became more popular in the African American community. Kentucky-born Sylvester Weaver was in 1923 the first to record the slide guitar style, in which a guitar is fretted with a knife blade or the sawed-off neck of a bottle. The slide guitar became an important part of the Delta blues The first blues recordings from the 1920s are categorized as a traditional, rural country blues and a more polished 'city' or urban blues.
Country blues performers often improvised, either without accompaniment or with only a banjo or guitar. Regional styles of country blues varied widely in the early 20th century. The (Mississippi) Delta blues was a rootsy sparse style with passionate vocals accompanied by slide guitar. The little-recorded Robert Johnson combined elements of urban and rural blues. In addition to Robert Johnson, influential performers of this style included his predecessors Charley Patton and Son House. Singers such as Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller performed in the southeastern "delicate and lyrical" Piedmont blues tradition, which used an elaborate ragtime-based fingerpicking guitar technique. Georgia also had an early slide tradition with George Carter, Curley Weaver, "Tampa Red" (Hudson Woodbridge/Whittaker), "Barbecue Bob" Hicks and Gitfiddle Jim/James "Kokomo" Arnold as representatives of this style.

1920s and forward

The lively Memphis blues style, which developed in the 1920s and 1930s near Memphis, Tennessee, was influenced by jug bands such as the Memphis Jug Band or the Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. Performers such as Frank Stokes, Blind Old Tom Anderson, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Wilkins, Big Boy Brazier, Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie used a variety of unusual instruments such as washboard, fiddle, kazoo or mandolin. Memphis Minnie was famous for her virtuoso guitar style. Pianist Memphis Slim began his career in Memphis, but his distinct style was smoother and had some swing elements. Many blues musicians based in Memphis moved to Chicago in the late 1930s or early 1940s and became part of the urban blues movement, which blended country music and electric blues. City or urban blues styles were more codified and elaborate as a performer was no longer within their local, immediate community and had to adapt to a larger, more varied audience's aesthetic. Classic female urban and vaudeville blues singers were popular in the 1920s, among them Mamie Smith, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Victoria Spivey. Mamie Smith, more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was the first African-American to record a blues in 1920; her second record, "Crazy Blues," sold 75,000 copies in its first month. Ma Rainey, the "Mother of Blues," and Bessie Smith each "[sang] around center tones, perhaps in order to project her voice more easily to the back of a room." Smith would "...sing a song in an unusual key, and her artistry in bending and stretching notes with her beautiful, powerful contralto to accommodate her own interpretation was unsurpassed." Urban male performers included popular black musicians of the era, such Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and Leroy Carr. Before WWII, Tampa Red was sometimes referred to as "the Guitar Wizard." Carr accompanied himself on the piano with Scrapper Blackwell on guitar, a format that continued well into the 50s with people such as Charles Brown, and even Nat "King" Cole.
A typical boogie-woogie basslineBoogie-woogie was another important style of 1930s and early 1940s urban blues. While the style is often associated with solo piano, boogie-woogie was also used to accompany singers and, as a solo part, in bands and small combos. Boogie-Woogie style was characterized by a regular bass figure, an ostinato or riff and shifts of level in the left hand, elaborating each chord and trills and decorations in the right hand. Boogie-woogie was pioneered by the Chicago-based Jimmy Yancey and the Boogie-Woogie Trio (Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis). Chicago boogie-woogie performers included Clarence "Pine Top" Smith and Earl Hines, who "linked the propulsive left-hand rhythms of the ragtime pianists with melodic figures similar to those of Armstrong's trumpet in the right hand." The smooth Louisiana style of Professor Longhair and, more recently, Dr. John blends classic rhythm and blues with blues styles.
Another development in this period was big band blues. The "territory bands" operating out of Kansas City, the Benny Moten orchestra, Jay McShann, and the Count Basie Orchestra were also concentrating on the blues, with 12-bar blues instrumentals such as Basie's "One O'Clock Jump" and "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and boisterous "blues shouting" by Jimmy Rushing on songs like "Going to Chicago" and "Sent for You Yesterday." A well-known big band blues tune is Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". In the 1940s, the jump blues style developed. Jump blues is influenced by big band music and uses saxophone or other brass instruments and the guitar in the rhythm section to create a jazzy, up-tempo sound with declamatory vocals. Jump blues tunes by Louis Jordan and Big Joe Turner, based in Kansas City, Missouri, influenced the development of later styles such as rock and roll and rhythm and blues.

Early post-war blues

After World War II and in the 1950s, new styles of electric blues music became popular in cities such as Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis. Electric blues used amplified electric guitars, electric bass, drums, and harmonica played through a microphone. Chicago became a center for electric blues in the early 1950s. Chicago blues is influenced to a large extent by the Mississippi blues style, because many performers had migrated from the Mississippi region. Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Jimmy Reed were all born in Mississippi and moved to Chicago during the Great Migration. Their style is characterized by the use of electric guitar, sometimes slide guitar, harmonica, and a rhythm section of bass and drums. J. T. Brown who played in Elmore James's or J. B. Lenoir's bands, also used saxophones, but these were used more as "backing" or rhythmic support than as solo instruments.
"Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) are well known harmonica (called "harp" by blues musicians) players of the early Chicago blues scene. Other harp players such as Big Walter Horton were also influential. Muddy Waters and Elmore James were known for their innovative use of slide electric guitar. B. B. King and Freddie King (no relation), who did not use slide guitar, were influential guitarists of the Electric blues style, even though they weren't from Chicago. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were known for their deep, "gravelly" voices.
Bassist and composer Willie Dixon played a major role on the Chicago blues scene. He composed and wrote many standard blues songs of the period, such as "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (both penned for Muddy Waters) and, "Wang Dang Doodle" and "Back Door Man" for Howlin' Wolf. Most artists of the Chicago blues style recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records label. Other prominent blues labels of this era included J.O.B. Records and Vee-Jay Records.
In the 1950s, blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music and in particular on the development of rockabilly. While popular musicians like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues. Diddley and Berry's approach to performance was one of the factors that influenced the transition from the blues to rock 'n' roll. Elvis Presley and Bill Haley were more influenced by the jump blues and boogie-woogie styles. They popularized rock and roll within the white segment of the population. Chicago blues also influenced Louisiana's zydeco music, with Clifton Chenier using blues accents. Zydeco musicians used electric solo guitar and cajun arrangements of blues standards. Other blues artists, such as T-Bone Walker, Michael Walton and John Lee Hooker, had influences not directly related to the Chicago style. Dallas-born T-Bone Walker is often associated with the California blues style, which is smoother than Chicago blues and is a transition between the Chicago blues, the jump blues and swing with some jazz-guitar influence. John Lee Hooker's blues is more "personal", based on Hooker's deep rough voice accompanied by a single electric guitar. Though not directly influenced by boogie woogie, his "groovy" style is sometimes called "guitar boogie". His first hit "Boogie Chillen" reached #1 on the R&B charts in 1949. By the late 1950s, the swamp blues genre developed near Baton Rouge, with performers such as Slim Harpo, Sam Myers and Jerry McCain. Swamp blues has a slower pace and a simpler use of the harmonica than the Chicago blues style performers such as Little Walter or Muddy Waters. Songs from this genre include "Scratch my Back", "She's Tough" and "I'm a King Bee".

Blues in the 1960s and 1970s

By the beginning of the 1960s, genres influenced by African American music such as rock and roll and soul were part of mainstream popular music. White performers had brought African-American music to new audiences, both within the US and abroad. In the UK, bands emulated US blues legends, and UK blues-rock-based bands had an influential role throughout the 1960s.
Blues performers such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters continued to perform to enthusiastic audiences, inspiring new artists steeped in traditional blues, such as New York-born Taj Mahal. John Lee Hooker blended his blues style with rock elements and playing with younger white musicians, creating a musical style that can be heard on the 1971 album Endless Boogie. B. B. King's virtuoso guitar technique earned him the eponymous title "king of the blues". In contrast to the Chicago style, King's band used strong brass support from a saxophone, trumpet, and trombone, instead of using slide guitar or harp. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B. B. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres. During this period, Freddie King and Albert King often played with rock and soul musicians (Eric Clapton, Booker T & the MGs)and had a major influence on those styles of music.
The music of the Civil Rights and Free Speech movements in the US prompted a resurgence of interest in American roots music and early African American music. As well as Jimmi Bass Music festivals such as the Newport Folk Festival brought traditional blues to a new audience, which helped to revive interest in prewar acoustic blues and performers such as Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and Reverend Gary Davis. Many compilations of classic prewar blues were republished by the Yazoo Records. J. B. Lenoir from the Chicago blues movement in the 1950s recorded several LPs using acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied by Willie Dixon on the acoustic bass or drums. His songs commented on political issues such as racism or Vietnam War issues, which was unusual for this period. His Alabama Blues recording had a song that stated:
I never will go back to Alabama, that is not the place for me (2x)You know they killed my sister and my brother,and the whole world let them peoples go down there free
White audiences' interest in the blues during the 1960s increased due to the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the British blues movement. The style of British blues developed in the UK, when bands such as Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, and Cream performed classic blues songs from the Delta or Chicago blues traditions.
The British blues musicians of the early 1960s inspired a number of American blues-rock fusion performers, including Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, The J. Geils Band, Ry Cooder and The Allman Brothers Band. Many of Led Zeppelin's earlier hits were renditions of traditional blues songs. One blues-rock performer, Jimi Hendrix, was a rarity in his field at the time: a black man who played psychedelic rock. Hendrix was a skilled guitarist, and a pioneer in the innovative use of distortion and feedback in his music. Through these artists and others, blues music influenced the development of rock music.
In the late 1960s, the West Side style blues emerged in Chicago with Magic Sam, Magic Slim and Otis Rush. West Side style has strong rhythmic support from a rhythm guitar, bass electric guitar, and drums. Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Luther Allison had a West Side style that was dominated by amplified electric lead guitar. Since the early 1970s, The Texas rock-blues style emerged which used guitars in both solo and rhythm roles. In contrast with the West Side blues, the Texas style is strongly influenced by the British rock-blues movement. Major artists of the Texas style are Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and ZZ Top. These artists all began their musical journey in the 1970s, but they did not achieve major international success until the next decade.

1980s to the present

Since the 1980s, there has been a resurgence of interest in the blues among a certain part of the African-American population, particularly around Jackson, MS and other deep South regions. Often termed "soul blues" or "Southern Soul," the music at the heart of this movement was given new life by the unexpected success of two particular recordings on the Jackson-based Malaco label: Z. Z. Hill's Down Home Blues (1982) and Little Milton's The Blues is Alright (1984). Contemporary African-American performers who work this vein of the blues include Bobby Rush, Denise LaSalle, Sir Charles Jones, Bettye LaVette, Marvin Sease and Peggy Scott-Adams.
Texas blues guitarist, Stevie Ray VaughanDuring the 1980s, blues also continued in both traditional and new forms. In 1986, the album Strong Persuader revealed Robert Cray as a major blues artist. The first Stevie Ray Vaughan recording Texas Flood was released in 1983, and the Texas based guitarist exploded onto the international stage. 1989 saw a revival of John Lee Hooker's popularity with the album The Healer. Eric Clapton known for his performances with the Blues Breakers and Cream, made a comeback in the 1990s with his album Unplugged, in which he played some standard blues numbers on acoustic guitar.
In the 1980s and 1990s, blues publications such as Living Blues and Blues Revue began to be distributed, major cities began forming blues societies, outdoor blues festivals became more common, and more nightclubs and venues for blues emerged.
In the 1990s, blues performers explored a range of musical genres, as can be seen, for example, from the broad array of nominees of the yearly Blues Music Awards, previously named W. C. Handy Awards or of the Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary and Traditional Blues Album. Contemporary blues music is nurtured by several blues labels such as: Alligator Records, Ruf Records, Chess Records (MCA), Delmark Records, NorthernBlues Music, and Vanguard Records (Artemis Records). Some labels are famous for their rediscovering and remastering of blues rarities such as Arhoolie Records, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (heir of Folkways Records) and Yazoo Records (Shanachie Records).
Young blues artists today are exploring all aspects of the blues, from classic delta to more rock-oriented blues, artists born after 1970 such as Sean Costello, John Mayer, Anthony Gomes, Shemekia Copeland, Jonny Lang, Corey Harris, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Bonamassa, Michelle Malone,The White Stripes, North Mississippi Allstars, Gracie B, The Black Keys, Bob Log III, Jose P and Hillstomp developing their own styles. Memphis, Texas-based William Daniel McFalls, also known as "Blues Boy Willie" is a performer of traditional blues.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues )